30 stories · 30 original illustrations · An Incoprea long read
A hand reaches out inside a ship on the ocean floor. A teenager survives a falling aircraft and then has to walk out of the Amazon. A doctor in Antarctica discovers that the only available surgeon is himself. These are the kinds of incidents that can make a film seem implausible—until the records show that something very like them actually happened.
Thirty extraordinary escapes, grounded in rescue footage, museum collections, medical papers and survivor accounts. Where a famous detail is disputed or known chiefly through a memoir, the telling keeps that distinction visible.
